Kentucky pol demands apology after police tweet rape joke during Super Bowl
"Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) on Sunday demanded an apology from the Kentucky State Police after they reportedly tweeted a rape joke from their official account during the Super Bowl.
Kentucky State Police tweeted a gif of a bar of soap hitting the ground, according to the Kentucky Courier Journal, "a crude reference to an inmate making himself vulnerable to anal rape."
"Enjoy watching @Robgronkowski (TE) play but if you drink & drive…your tight-end may end up in jail! #designateddriver," the tweet read, referring to the New England Patriots' tight end. "The Hill, Februay 4, 2018

Utah one of only two states not complying with federal prison-rape guidelines, DOJ says
"Nineteen states have fully adopted standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, according to the department's latest compliance list. Another 34 states and U.S. territories have demonstrated they are working toward compliance.
But Utah and Arkansas continue to reject the standards. Several other states — including Idaho, Alaska and Texas — initially rejected PREA but in recent years agreed to move toward compliance.
"http://archive.sltrib.com, May 15, 2017

Missouri prisoner was repeatedly assaulted while state workers lied about cell checks
"ST. LOUIS — For as long as 10 days, one inmate at a state prison in Farmington sexually and physically abused a cellmate in a manner so severe that his prison term was extended 22 years.
Austin Gallup ultimately pleaded guilty to abusing the St. Louis County man in 2013 in what the victim's attorney calls torture."http://www.stltoday.com, Jul 12, 2017

Turkish gold trader in Iran sanctions case sodomized cellmate with cucumber, repeatedly raped him: lawsuit
" A Turkish gold trader testifying in a politically charged case over Iran sanctions sodomized his cellmate with a cucumber and repeatedly raped him, a new lawsuit charges.
Reza Zarrab sexually assaulted Faouzi Jaber, who pleaded guilty in July to trafficking guns and drugs to FARC revolutionaries in Colombia, while the two were cellmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center between November 2016 and March 10, 2017, according to Jaber's suit.
"The parties lived together locked for much of the time in a small cell which became a kind of torture chamber," Jaber's suit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court states."NY Daily News, December 7, 2017

Another woman claims she was assaulted by violent Rikers Island inmate while correction officers did nothing
" A second woman has come forward to say a violent and unstable Rikers Island inmate sexually assaulted her as Department of Correction staff turned a blind eye, the Daily News has learned.
Dania Torres, 21, said Alexandria James tortured her sexually and physically abused her for about a month beginning around October.
Torres, who has since been released, said 23-year-old James fixated on her, declaring she was her "girlfriend" and started stalking her around the housing unit before repeatedly molesting and penetrating her."NY Daily News, August 15, 2017

Brian Derryberry, 24, formerly of the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office, became the target of an investigation after authorities discovered he was hooking up with a woman who was incarcerated at the Morongo Jail, according to a sheriff's office press release.

A transgender Georgia inmate who sued the state's prison system after being denied hormone therapy and a safe environment has been paroled for the remainder of her 11-year sentence.
Ashley Diamond, 38, was released Monday after serving a little more than three years in a male prison during which she says she was sexually assaulted eight times.

A few months ago, President Obama implored the media and entertainment outlets to stop making prison rape jokes, due to the fact that rape, in or out of prison, is a horribly insensitive thing to make light of. But not if you're an editor at the NY Post, where they think it's hilarious to advocate prison rape as a suitable punishment for confessed pedophile and former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle.

Feds overhaul Alabama women's prison where staff coerced sex from inmates and organized strip show
" MONTGOMERY, Ala.—An Alabama women's prison will be overhauled after the U.S. Justice Department said officers there coerced inmates into sex, watched them in showers and bathrooms and organized a New Year's Eve strip show.
The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a complaint in federal court summarizing alleged abuses at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, along with an accompanying settlement agreement outlining the steps the state has agreed to take to eliminate the abuses. Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer, said the agreement could serve as a model for other prisons."Associated Press, May 28, 2015.

Suit: City allowed Rikers officers to rape and sexually abuse inmates
"The explosive class action filed on Tuesday in federal court details reports of serial rape and sexual abuse by eight corrections officers at the all–female Rose M. Singer Center in the New York City jail complex, including a case where an inmate was dragged into a janitor's closet and another where the inmate became pregnant."CNN.com, May 22, 2015.

Arizona Worker Safety Agency Reviewing Prison Rape
"PHOENIX (AP)—Arizona's workplace safety agency confirmed Thursday that it has launched a review of the rape of a teacher inside a state prison classroom.
The teacher was alone in the room with no guard nearby when a convicted rapist assaulted her, documents state."Associated Press, June 26, 2014.

Federal report finds Alabama prison 'toxic,' female inmates abused
"The Justice Department concluded in a blistering report on Wednesday that female inmates at one Alabama prison live in a toxic environment marked by sex abuse and harassment by corrections staff.
The Department's Civil Rights Division said the Alabama Department of Corrections has repeatedly violated the women's constitutional rights at the Julia Tutwiler Prison."CNN.com, January 23, 2014.

The Latest Trend in Child Sexual Exploitation: Rape in Adult PrisonsJanuary 25, 2001, report from Joanne Mariner, FindLaw columnist, attorney, and deputy director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch, regarding juveniles sentenced to adult penal institutions, and their increased vulnerability to sexual assault and exploitation as a result

Paying for Time[http://www.abqjournal.com/news/jails/]Series of articles from the Albuquerque Journal, January 2001, documenting abuses within New Mexico jails.

No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. PrisonsSpecial 2001 Report from Human Rights Watch regarding sexual assaults/rapes in U.S. male correctional facilities. Includes the scope of the problem, statistics, prisoners' stories, and resource links.

The Life-Style Violent JuvenileInformation on obtaining the CD version of Andrew Vachss' 1979 textbook with plans for total reform of incarceration and treatment modalities in maximum-security juvenile facilities.

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